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This list of castles in Normandy is a list of medieval castles or château forts in the regions of Lower Normandy and Upper Normandy in northern France.
Château les Bruyères Balleroy Castle Château de Caen Château de Creully Château de Falaise Château de La Pommeraye in Calvados. Donjon de Chambois Château de Tancarville, near the Manoir du Clap. This is a list of châteaux in the French region of Normandy.
The somewhat battered and denuded Château de Gaillon, begun in 1502 on ancient foundations [1] was the summer archiepiscopal residence of Georges d'Amboise, Cardinal Archbishop of Rouen; he made of the old château-fort a palatial Early Renaissance structure of unparalleled luxury and magnificence, the most ambitious and significant French ...
Note: The French word château has a wider meaning than the English castle: it includes architectural entities that are properly called palaces, mansions or vineyards in English. This category focuses primarily on architectural entities that may be properly termed castle or fortress (French: château-fort ), and excludes entities not built ...
The Rothschild family residences are palaces, castles and houses which are, or were, ... Normandy. Haras de Meautry; Château de Reux; Nouvelle-Aquitaine
the Échiquier de Normandie (Exchequer of Normandy), used as a temporary hall of exhibitions, which seated the Court of Normandy; a garden showing plants cultivated in the Middle Ages. The keep, now razed, had a large square section with round towers at each corner. As the castle, it was also surrounded by a moat. The dry moat still provides a ...